I saw this today:

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened

Winston Churchill

I think the main problem that anti-war types have concerning the recent events in Iraq is that Bush stumbled over the truth and is sticking with it. We can't leave until we complete the task. What is the task? Peace in the Mid-East? No. It's putting any country that harbors terrorists on notice that we are not fucking around. We will make the regimes responsible pay dearly. This is not Imperialism or about oil, it's about our national security and that of our true allies. Blair and Howard among others see it, and Bush sees it. I feel sad that this must be reiterated on a seemingly daily basis.

From Tim Blair I poached this beauty:

If war against militant Islamic terrorists didn't happen in Iraq now, it was going to have to happen somewhere, sooner or later. September 11 and Bali are proof enough.


Better to bring it on now, at a time of our choosing, with all the cockroaches gathered for a showdown out in the open in Iraq, rather than cower at home, our economies shrinking, our civilians picked off, our enemies growing stronger, until we finally wake up to the fact that fighting is necessary, and find it's too late and we are too weak.

And this:

We've taken the War Against Terror to our enemies. It's far better to draw the terrorists out of their holes in the Middle East, where we don't have to read them their rights, than to wait for them to show up in Manhattan again.


In Iraq, we can just kill the bastards. And we're doing it with gusto.

I believe that W understands this and will act with resolve. Hell, it just may cost him the election if it continues. I don't believe that bringing the troop home with the job incomplete can be a winning campaign strategy however. The papers will pound the quagmire rhetoric, I don't think the voters will buy it.